eBook Features
eBooks give students, teachers, and schools an additional instructional tool in the learning process. Some features available for K-12 eBooks:
- Interactive, enhanced capabilities
- Text-to-Speak
- Portable
- Search feature
- Hyperlink tie-in (dictionaries, YouTube, etc.)
- Downloadable
- Adjustable font-size, brightness, highlighting tools
- Gaming features
- Streaming video
Free eBook Resources
The resources below are free sites available on the Internet.
Epic Books
- Epic Books
(Grades: K-6)
Epic books is an Internet site offering Educators a free account. It contains over 10,000 ebooks, videos in English, Spanish, Chinese, and French titles. Teachers can set up classrooms and track students books and reading times.
Global Storybooks
- Global Storybooks Portal
Read, download, toggle, and listen to a wide variety of illustrated stories. Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide.
StoryWeaver
- StoryWeaver
Digital repository of multilingual stories for children. Designed to provide children with reading resources, StoryWeaver is a digital gateway to thousands of richly illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in mother tongue languages. There's more to StoryWeaver than just reading. It is also a first-of-its-kind platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, and translate new stories for children. It's the ideal place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to come together to weave new stories for children and help to create a pathway to nurture the next generation of readers!
African Storybook
- African Storybook
Open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa.
For children’s literacy, enjoyment and imagination.
Biblioteca Digital del ILCE
- Biblioteca Digital del ILCE
Digital Library of the ILCE is a portal that offers works and collections of books for free internet access. It presents works of general culture: literature, art, geography, history, scientific dissemination, environmental education, and pedagogy, among others. It has a children's section that offers reading options for school age and a didactic section to support the work and training of the basic education teacher.
Global Digital Library
- Global Digital Library
The GDL will collect existing high quality open educational reading resources, and make them available on web, mobile and for print. It will also facilitate translation and localization of these resources to more than 300 languages. The GDL’s initial purpose is to support access to high quality early-grade reading resources.
Mobile App Access Only
- Worldreader
Our library is designed to help people read for education, economic opportunity, better health, gender equality, and just for fun. Our readers are drawn to books that reflect the world they live in. We source books from local publishers in local languages that depict the lives, challenges, and triumphs of our readers, so they can relate to the stories. Worldreader’s collections are curricularly aligned and designed to support lesson plans. With our library, students can expand their vocabulary, master subjects, build 21st Century skills, and improve reading fluency and comprehension.
